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In case you missed it, President Trump signed the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) into law on December 27, 2020. The TMA, which garnered bi-partisan support and was included in the
COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill, establishes the following four changes to current trademark laws:
It formalizes a process for submitting evidence against pending third party trademark applications;
It enables the USPTO to shorten Office Action response deadlines from the current six-month period to anywhere between two months and six months;
It creates
ex parte Expungement and Reexamination proceedings as new methods for seeking cancellation of a third-party trademark registration; and